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Papyrus 882
- Record Id:
- 040-003689999
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106522449.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469463.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 882
- Title:
- Sale of Land (P.Lond. III 882, Chrest.Mitt. 154, TM 87)
- Scope & Content:
- Deed drawn up by Pisarchus, agent of the notary of Diospolis Parva, recording the sale of two plots of land amounting to three and a half aruras for one bronze talent. The seller is Thamounis, daughter of Patous, and the buyer Peteharsemtheus, son of Nechoutes; with summary of the deed (scriptura interior) in column 1, and receipt of the banker Paniscus acknowledging the payment of the tax on sale at the end. The deed is dated 27 March 101 BC and the receipt 15 April.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003689999 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 882 : Sale of Land (P.Lond. III 882, Chrest.Mitt. 154, TM 87) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1834]/040-003689999
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus roll, complete and well preserved, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 3 columns of 6, 14 and 7 lines respectively. Margins are extant; sheet-joins are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469463.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0101
- End Date:
- -0101
- Date Range:
- March-April 101 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 150 x 532 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 205 x 585 mm.
Script: Column 1: Rapid and small cursive hand; column 2: regular and neat upright cursive hand; lines uneven; column 3: upright, thick cursive hand in very black ink; lines uneven.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Diospolis Parva (Hiou), Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 879-883 through the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum in April 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 154
P.Lond. III 882 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 13-14, no. 882, with pl. 7.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 166-167, no. 154.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 159, facs. no. 25.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 273.
E. Boswinkel, P. W. Pestman, Textes grecs, démotiques et bilingues (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XIX) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1978), p. 217.
K. Maresch, Bronze und Silber: papyrologische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Währung im ptolemäischen und römischen Ägypten bis zum 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1996), p. 206.
K. Vandorpe, S. Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ Archives. A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt (CollectaneaHellenistica 3) (Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie & l'Union Academique Internationale 2009), pp. 163-189, §47.
M. Vierros, Bilingual notaries in Hellenistic Egypt: a study of Greek as a second language (Collectanea Hellenistica 5) (Brussel: Publikatie van het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2012), no. 98.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)